Artistic Near Misses

"Maybe you’ve made something mediocre–there’s plenty of that in any artist’s cabinets–but something mediocre is better than nothing, and often the near-misses, as I call them, are the beckoning hands that bring you to perfection just around the blind corner.”
~ Sally Mann*



Don Quixote bookplate by Vilnis Resnis

*Via Rosi Hollinbeck at The Write Stuff